The Police Command in Gombe State, has arrested six suspects in an attempt to defraud residents of the state.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Ishola Babaita made this known at a news conference on Friday in Gombe.
Babaita said that the arrest was made possible through its community policing strategy as well as the proactiveness of the command to rid the state of any form of crime and criminalities.
According to him, the six suspects comprise two indigenes of Gombe state and four Republic of Benin nationals, who entered into the country illegally and were arrested in Gombe on Jan 18.
“On the Jan. 18, at 8:30 p.m. the command received information that three Hummer buses brought some group of young men numbering about 109.
“Immediately, Police operatives in synergy with the Department of State Security (DSS) were dispatched to the scene and the people were invited to the DSS facility where they were interrogated.
“The two Nigerians were transferred to the police for discrete investigations and possible prosecution while the four Beninese were handed over to the Nigerian Immigration Service which later returned them back to the police,” the commissioner said.
Babaita said during the interrogation, the suspects claimed that they were into online networking business called QNET.
He said that the documents tendered “as Independent Representatives (IR) of the QNRT revealed that an IR is not an employee, agent or official…
